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Originally Posted by TF-Viewer
They're sick and suffering and will not live the kind of lifespan they would normally.
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"Radioactive" does not automatically mean "sick and suffering". We're not talking about radiation sickness here. Low doses of radiation over a long period of time doesn't affect an organism the same way a huge burst like what happened right after the accident. The wolves do seem to be thriving and the ones featured on this
Nature episode seemed to be healthy. They probably do have a higher incidence of birth defects and cancer than a population outside a radioactive zone, but we don't know. The long-term studies of the area are just starting. What we do know is that the Exclusion Zone isn't a total dead zone. It sure as hell isn't S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
You can't possibly know about the lifespan of creatures within the Zone because the scientists studying the Zone do not know.
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Originally Posted by TF-Viewer
If the accident hadn't happened there would be far fewer animals in the area, that much is true, but those few that were there would not be radioactive.
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Yes. They would not be radioactive.
